I considered the same, although I didn't see any connection with the list of the tribes as a "tradition." I also landed on Twelve Days of Christmas, even though I couldn't see any connection with the gems or biblical garment (figuring that the writers were going for a seasonal theme).

"Traditions" seems overly vague as a category heading, but maybe this was simply a case of overthinking an otherwise easy clue, i.e., 12 gemstones so WECIB?

So the clue that wanted "...THE ROLLING STONES FACED 'EXILE' HERE." Think I could've gotten away with "What is Main Street?" I was really iffy on the preposition. I knew "from" was wrong, but waffled between "in" and "on". I think I would've swung the right way, but I'm not sure.

Only got two of the four revealed in the composers category. That's normally a wheelhouse. For the string quartets dedicated to Haydn, I went with Beethoven instead of Mozart. I just didn't recall Mozart writing any string quartets. I guess 1785 was slightly too early for Ludwig, though. He turned 15 that year. I don't think he was a child prodigy the way Wolfie was.

Also blanked on the alliterative Russian composer that Rimsky-Korsakov dedicated a piece to. I ran through the big 5--Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin (both mentioned in the clue), Mily Balakirev, Cesar Cui, and....? On a DD I would've said Cui and hoped that it alliterated better in Russian. Forgot about ole Modest Mussorgsky.

First thought for FJ was the tribes of Israel. I was able to get past that pretty quickly and land on the correct response.

Missed a second LT by one letter - recalled the equine hybrid as a "whinney" rather than a "hinney".

I went straight to birthstones on FJ, then spent the rest of the think music trying to figure out why that seemed too easy and what I missed. Couldn't see what I missed, so wrote it down.

I felt a bit bad for Vishali, it looked like she just couldn't get the hang of the buzzer to get in and answer. I fully expected her to head to the law category at the first opportunity, and she didn't disappoint. But she didn't get much of a chance to answer due to Travis' speed with the buzzer.

The writers were headed to a win in the DJ! round with 8 TS clues by my [often wrong] count. I have no doubt at least one - and maybe both - of the missed clues would have been another TS, giving the writers almost 1/3 of the board. I had a hard time with the two bottom rows in that round, only knowing the Orkney islands (and nothing about the rest of that clue). The players were 4/10 on the revealed clues in the bottom rows.

I managed to convince myself that the gems (never heard of sardius though) were pointing to birthstones, and that I wasn't missing anything. Was fully prepared to kick (and punch and curse) myself if it was the 12 days of Xmas.

The game should come with a warning for Doctor Who fans with the photo of the actor leading to a TS clue.

I remember laughing at the writers every time a Doctor Who question was in the bottom row. "Oh come on, a picture of the 12th Doctor for 2000? Gimme a bre--" *crickets* Oh well. (As an aside, I'll really miss 12. That three-parter at the end of season 9 was probably the best set of episodes of the entire new series so far. We'll see what 13 brings to the table.)

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My family and I watched Local Hero, which I've always loved, after dinner on Christmas, so I was very ready to get Peter Capaldi on tonight's show. I even mentioned to them that he had been the latest doctor before the current female one. Sometimes I remember his name, sometimes I don't, but it did come to me while I was watching the movie and was still there for tonight.

Also blanked on the alliterative Russian composer that Rimsky-Korsakov dedicated a piece to. I ran through the big 5--Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin (both mentioned in the clue), Mily Balakirev, Cesar Cui, and....? On a DD I would've said Cui and hoped that it alliterated better in Russian. Forgot about ole Modest Mussorgsky.

Locked in on Bela Bartok and never looked back.
FJ thinking of holidays, took a few seconds to switch gears and get to the correct response.

Good game, Travis. I thought Kevin was scoring consistently and surprised to see he couldn't catch up.

I wrongly assign a generic Biblical clue to mean Old Testament, especially if it goes into detail about fashion, construction, dietary issues, etc everyday life stuff. So why would there be any twelve days of Christmas connections if Jesus isn't born yet?
Anyway, topaz took me to birthstones with lots of doubts. Were there 12 months at the time (September, October, November and December are 7,8,9, and 10 after all)? Nothing Biblical can be connected to the Zodiac can it? Thank you topaz, for being a birthstone and number 8 on the Moh's hardness scale about 18 centuries later.

I am somewhat surprised about the FJ polling so high with the boardies so far. There has to be many other things it could be.

I hope they forget the word within a clue category. The guesses were easy and direct, but I couldn't get from "lane", the obvious choice to a celestial object except the plane of the ecliptic.

- All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford (Winner of Nobel price in CHEMISTRY)-

Boy that word within a word category took a long time to explain, and it took me 3 clues before I finally got it. I don't usually do well on word-play clues anyway.

It was an awkward category, no question about that, but you could get most, if not all, of the answers just from the first part of the clue. Since you didn't actually need to give the longer word as well, the whole "word within a word" conceit was basically unnecessary. Seems like it did nothing but confuse the contestants.